|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DUNCAN, ROBERT Matches Found: 258 Duncan, Robert Poet's Biography 255 poems available by this author A LITTLE LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A MORNING LETTER Poem Text First Line: The various members of the hierarchy move Last Line: This is an early morning in a world of kings A NEW POEM (FOR JACK SPICER) Poem Text First Line: You are right. What we call poetry is the boat Last Line: A bird I cannot name crows Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A PAIR OF URANIAN GARTERS FOR AURORA BLIGH Poem Text First Line: Death's legs in black net stockings Last Line: There is no more A POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The light foot hears you and the brightness begins Last Line: Clockwise and counter-clockwise turning A RIDE TO THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The bland electricity, light blue wash Last Line: With which to compose ourselves A SET OF ROMANTIC HYMNS Recitation by Author A SONG OF THE OLD ORDER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sing fair the lady and her knight Last Line: Burnt leaf of november and green of may A SPRING MEMORANDUM Poem Text First Line: The year has run thin through the turning room of my wind Last Line: To force out each bud to the hungry day A STORM OF WHITE Poem Text First Line: Neither/sky nor earth, without horizon, it's Last Line: Can still propose the old labors ... ACHILLES' SONG Poem Text First Line: I do not know more than the sea tells me Last Line: And soon you too -- will be alone Subject(s): Achilles ACHILLES' SONG First Line: I do not know more than the sea tells me Last Line: And soon you too -- will be alone ADAM'S SONG First Line: When this garden %is no longer home to us Last Line: Here, where war is, the certain %end, the paradise ADORATION OF THE VIRGIN First Line: The speechless statue of the virgin stands Last Line: As if that touch were stolen from their hearts AFRICA REVISITED Recitation by Author Subject(s): Africa AFRICAN ELEGY First Line: In the groaves of africa fromtheir natural wonder AFTER A LONG ILLNESS First Line: No faculty not ill at ease Last Line: That knows nor sleep nor waking, nor dream %-- an eternal arrest AFTER A PASSAGE IN BAUDELAIRE Poem Text First Line: Ship, leaving or arriving, of my lover Last Line: Complique, mais eurythmique Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets AFTER A PASSAGE IN BAUDELAIRE First Line: Ship, leaving or arriving, of my lover Last Line: Complique, mais surythmique Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry And Poets AFTER READING H.D.'S HERMETIC DEFINITIONS First Line: What time of day is it? Last Line: But their song in the sun AFTERTHOUGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My first mother in whom I took my first nature Subject(s): Mothers ALBIGENSES First Line: We move as dragons in the lethargy Last Line: O let me die, but if you love me, let me die AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW Poem Text Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Friendship AN AFRICAN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: In the groves of africa from their natural wonder Last Line: How sad then is even the marvelous! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Text First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has hiw own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AN IMAGINARY WOMAN Recitation by Author AN INTERLUDE * OF RARE BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: The seal in the depraved wave Last Line: No more than our affection / for naming. Subject(s): Beauty; Montague, John (b. 1929) AN OWL IS AN ONLY BIRD OF POETRY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A cross leaves marks the tree we fancy Last Line: Who gives his hoot for joy as he flies. / alights Subject(s): Owls AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME Poem Text First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men APPREHENSIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To open night's eye that sleeps in what know as day Last Line: To which our grief refers APPREHENSIONS First Line: To open night's eye that sleeps in what we know by day Last Line: To which our grief refers ARCHITECTURE PASSAGES 9 First Line: ... It must have recesses. There is a great charm in a room broken up Last Line: ... 'which belong to the inner and individual part of the family life.' ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has his own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AT THE POETRY CONFERENCE: BERKELEY AFTER THE NEW YORK STYLE Poem Text First Line: Beginning with sonnets for ted berrigan Last Line: To hear what we need and is lovely. Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Writer's Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph AUGUST SUN Poem Text First Line: God of the idle heat, in this glaring road Last Line: Waiting for evening grace BALLAD OF MRS. NOAH First Line: Mrs. Noah in the ark %wove a great nightgown out of the dark Last Line: Ah! The rainbow's awake %and we will not fail! BALLAD OF THE ENAMORD MAGE First Line: How the earth turns round under the sun I know Last Line: For by your side I move BANNERS First Line: The swan is the signet, heraldic joy Last Line: The scarlet lake of some significance BEFORE THE JUDGMENT PASSAGES 35 First Line: Discontent with that first draft. Where one's own Last Line: Against the works of unworthy men, unfeeling judgments, and cruel %(deeds BEGINNING OF WRITING First Line: A composition Last Line: Over the measures of disorderd sleep. %disorderd speech BEING IMITATIONS, DERIVATIONS, AND VARIATIONS UPON CERTAIN CONCEITS AND FINDINGS MADE AMONG HARD LIN Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BENDING THE BOW Poem Text First Line: We've our business to attend day's duties Subject(s): Friendship BENDING THE BOW First Line: We've our business to attend day's duties Last Line: From which it sprang BENEFICE PASSAGES 23 Poem Text First Line: Thru the shinto gate Last Line: From the ridge-pole BONE DANCE Poem Text First Line: The skull of the old man wears Last Line: Love of the night, love of the day? BOOK OF RESEMBLANCES First Line: There could be a book without nations in its chapters Last Line: Over neck to lick, lick, lick like a dripping faucet the groin BRING IT UP FROM THE DARK First Line: Bring up from the dark water Last Line: Dream disclosed to me, I too am ishmael BROUGHT TO LOVE Poem Text First Line: Like a woman Last Line: Restores order. / I order to: Subject(s): Love CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It's in the perilous boughs of the tree Last Line: I've been where you / most fear to be Subject(s): Self CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT First Line: It's in the perilous boughs of the tree CIRCULATIONS OF THE SONG First Line: If I do not now where he is Last Line: Now in the constant exchange %rendered true Subject(s): Homosexuality CLOSE First Line: At the brim, - at the lip Last Line: This: the gleam of the bowl in its not holding %feb. 19, 1982 COME LET ME FREE MYSELF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Come, let me be free from all that I love CONCERT PASSAGES 31 First Line: Out of the sun and the dispersing stars Last Line: To release -- full -- my man's share of the stars' %majesty CORRESPONDENCES First Line: It is from the ideas of you that you emerge Last Line: The simple pleasures of this world cause areas of torment in%the unreal like stones in an open field DANCE First Line: From its dancers circulates among the other Last Line: And see the dew shining DANTE ÉTUDES: BOOK ONE: WE WILL ENDEAVOR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We will endeavor Last Line: Imitating our nurses DANTE ÉTUDES: BOOK THREE: IN MY YOUTH NOT UNSTAIND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In my youth, not unstaind Last Line: That music that to orders larger than mankind / restoreth man Subject(s): Youth DANTE ETUDES, SELS. DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1) First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life Variant Title(s): A Little Languag Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGINARY POETRIES First Line: Where giant wordlings interrupt the stuttering machine-gun wit Last Line: Statement of a tea pot, a %sculptural head, a cat asleep DESPAIR IN BEING TEDIOUS Recitation by Author DOVES First Line: Mother of mouthings Last Line: Making but words of what I loved DREAM DATA First Line: The young japanese son was in love with a servant boy DREAMERS First Line: The genius mixt too strong a cup Last Line: Would nudge each other.' DRINKING FOUNTAIN First Line: Garcia lorca tasted Last Line: This is the drinking fountain Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936) FESTIVALS First Line: Was it a dream, or was it memory? Last Line: Awakens the fearful poet to her dream FIRST INVENTION ON THE THEME OF THE ADAM First Line: The streets. Of the mind. Whose gangs Last Line: Knows in the too many of her. %what to do FIVE PIECES Recitation by Author FOOD FOR FIRE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Good wood / that all fiery youth burst forth from winter Last Line: At the edge of our belief bud forth FOOD FOR FIRE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT First Line: Good wood %that all fiery youth burst forth from winter FOR A MUSE MEANT First Line: In %spired/the aspirate %the aspirant Last Line: A morning lang %wage -- ai ai a-wailing %the failing FOR A SONG OF THE LANGUAGERS First Line: What are the signs of life? The breath, the pulse Last Line: His appetite is not experimental FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 1 First Line: How lovely all that glitters Last Line: Into the light places FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 2 First Line: It must be that hard to believe, for belief Last Line: Most dear! %your searching eyes FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 3 First Line: Madrone tree that was my mother Last Line: My father's a shadow, the wind is my god FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 4 First Line: Let sleep take her, let sleep take her, let sleep Last Line: From a grave or a bed, from a grave or a bed FROM DANTE ETUDES: EVERYTHING SPEAKS TO ME First Line: Everything speaks to me! In faith Last Line: Listening to the sea FROM THE MABINOGION First Line: To throw a window open Last Line: For I think we've been in %this joint before HELMET OF GOLIATH First Line: What if the poet in a moment of terror Last Line: Each poet's face is curious HERO SONG Recitation by Author HERO SONG First Line: There was no repose Last Line: Love, he said, %will eat away the empire %until chaos remains HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944 Poem Text First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944 First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) HORNS OF ARTEMIS First Line: There where great artemis rides Last Line: Cold light shed on all things HOUSEHOLD First Line: The household -- to provide shelter Last Line: Gains in brilliancy HUMAN COMMUNION. TRACES First Line: The dead %are the departed therefrom. Whose Last Line: Below: %the boundless waters HUON OF BORDEAUX Recitation by Author HUON OF BORDEAUX First Line: The torches in the windy corridors Last Line: Floats upon the lethal sea I AM A MOST FLESHLY MAN First Line: I am a most fleshly man, and see Last Line: We hang like smoky music in the air ILLUSTRATIVE LINES First Line: This pen is where the writing flows in sight Last Line: Pass into the transports of a lingering %scent %illustrious IMAGINING IN WRITING First Line: Not in believing, but in pretending. Not in knowing, but in pretending Last Line: Vomited the remains of all claimd pleasures IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN (PASSAGES) Poem Text First Line: The angel syphilis in the circle of signators -- looses its hosts -- to swarm Last Line: My own counterpart of baudelaire's terrible ennuie? Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN (PASSAGES) First Line: The angel syphilis in the circle of signators -- looses its hosts -- to swarm Last Line: My own counterpart of baudelaire's terrible ennuie Subject(s): Hope IN THE PLACE OF A PASSAGE 22 Poem Text First Line: That freedom and the law are identical Last Line: From the mother of stars Subject(s): Liberty IN WAKING First Line: The life there was is Last Line: The guardian of the lion? INGMAR BERGMAN'S 'SEVENTH SEAL' First Line: This is the way it is. We see Last Line: There where the pestilence roars, %where the empty riders of the horror go INGMAR BERGMAN'S SEVENTH SEAL Recitation by Author Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (1918-2007) INTERLUDE First Line: My heart beats to the feet of the first faithful Last Line: The dancers come forward to present unclaimed things INTERRUPTED FORMS First Line: Long slumbering, often coming forward Last Line: That seeks to come in close to your heart %for warmth IT'S SPRING. LOVE'S SPRING First Line: The april stirring %not to be denied. Inert Last Line: The cost %that sustains us KING HAYDEN OF MIAMI BEACH First Line: In the rustling shelter of japanese peach KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM First Line: The hosts of the glittering fay return Last Line: Upon a field we had forgotten, -- amaze %and perish LIGHT SONG First Line: ;husbands the hand the keys a free imp- Last Line: As we observe it LOVER First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Now I am mistaken, often, %seeing his wraith in faces passing Subject(s): Homosexuality MAIDEN First Line: We consider %precedent to that shekinah, -- she Last Line: Unlikely hardihood may be retained METAMORPHOSIS Poem Text First Line: There is no noise as the stars turn. Lustrous signs Last Line: The secret of a dark from our secretness MIRROR First Line: Two women stroll among the orange-trees Last Line: With blood the sieves of lust and cry MY MOTHER WOULD BE A FALCONRESS Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: Talking to myself, and would draw blood MY MOTHER WOULD BE A FALCONRESS Last Line: Talking to myself, and would draw blood Subject(s): Homosexuality NEL MEZZO DEL CAMMIN DI NOSTRA VITA First Line: At 42, simon rodilla, tile-setter Last Line: To do something big for america' %rodia NEW POEM (FOR JACK SPICER) First Line: You are right. What we call poetry is the boat Last Line: From what we call poetry %a bird I cannot name crows Subject(s): Poetry And Poets OF EMPIRE First Line: Of empire: 'a unique princedom Last Line: Be brought under the orders of the living OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As if it were a scene made-up by the mind, Last Line: Everlasting omen of what is OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW First Line: As if it were a scene made-up by the mind Last Line: Everlasting omen of what is OSIRIS AND SET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Members of one life boat are Last Line: In our dreams we are drawn towards dawn once again OSIRIS AND SET First Line: Members of one life boat are Last Line: In our dreams we are drawn towards day once more OVER THERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Over there where thou art Last Line: There .. Where thou art .. Here the day OWL IS AN ONLY BIRD OF POETRY; A VALE FOR JAMES BROUGHTON First Line: A cross leaves marks the tree we fancy Last Line: Who gives his hoot for joy as he flies. %alights PASSAGE OVER WATER Poem Text First Line: We have gone out in boats upon the sea at night, Last Line: And within the indestructible night I am alone Subject(s): Loss PASSAGE OVER WATER First Line: We have gone out in boats upon the sea at night Last Line: And within the indestructible night I am alone PASSAGES 14 Recitation by Author PASSAGES 18. THE TORSO Poem Text First Line: Most beautiful! -- the red-flowering eucalyptus Last Line: The king upon whose bosom let me lie PASSAGES 21. THE MULTIVERSITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Not men but head of the hydra Last Line: Outside the freedom of individual volition PASSAGES 24. ORDERS Poem Text First Line: For the good Last Line: To another and another order ... PASSAGES 25. UP RISING Poem Text First Line: Now johnson would go up to join the great simulacra of men, Last Line: Now shines from the eye of the president in the swollen head of the nation Subject(s): War; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) PASSAGES 27. TRANSGRESSING THE REAL Poem Text First Line: In the way they made a celestial cave Last Line: As their studies in irreality deepen PASSAGES 28. THE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Now down-falling doom's darling Last Line: Darkling / lumen PASSAGES 29. EYE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Cao-dai -/gold and crystal of the sky's reaches Last Line: Sentences of an inaudible bell PASSAGES 31. THE CONCERT Poem Text First Line: Out of the sun and the dispersing stars Last Line: Majesty thwarted PASSAGES 32 Poem Text First Line: John adams, marginalia to court de gebelin's monde primitif Last Line: Traind to deny? Subject(s): United States; America PASSAGES 36 Recitation by Author First Line: Let it go. Let it go. PASSAGES 57. THE DIGNITIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Blest the black night that hides the elemental germ PASSAGES. AFTER PASSAGE Recitation by Author PASSAGES. ENTHRALLD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: By myth, story patternings ..Wish full, dread full .. Of last things Last Line: Dwells on the horizon PASSAGES. IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN Recitation by Author PASSAGES. QUAND LE GRAND FOYER DESCEND DANS LES EAUX Recitation by Author Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) PASSAGES. STIMMUNG Recitation by Author PASSAGES: 1. TRIBAL MEMORIES First Line: And to her-without bounds I send Last Line: To sleep or wake PASSAGES: 10. THESE PAST YEARS First Line: Willingly I'd say there's been a sweet marriage Last Line: In which he has not at times been our forerunner PASSAGES: 13. THE FIRE First Line: Jump - stone - hand - leaf - shadow - sun Last Line: Now - new - old - first - day - jump PASSAGES: 18. THE TORSO First Line: Most beautiful! -- the red-flowering eucalyptus Last Line: The king upon whose bosom let me lie Subject(s): Homosexuality PASSAGES: 2. AT THE LOOM First Line: A cat's purr Last Line: In his shield PASSAGES: 24, SELS. First Line: The blood %streams from the bodies of his sons PASSAGES: 25. UPRISING First Line: Now johnson would go up to join the simulacra of men Last Line: In the swollen head of the nation PASSAGES: 27. TRANSGRESSING THE REAL First Line: In the war they made a celestial cave Last Line: Its shores grow distant and unreal PASSAGES: 3. WHAT I SAW First Line: The white peacok roosting Last Line: Vertical to the horizon PASSAGES: 34. THE FEAST First Line: The butcher had prepared the leg of lamb Last Line: Ready in our need for it PASSAGES: 5. THE MOON First Line: So pleasing a light Last Line: Mount shasta in snowy reverie %floats PASSAGES: 8. AS IN THE OLD DAYS First Line: The ones of the old days Last Line: And evrything else PERSEPHONE First Line: Memory: farfields of morning Last Line: Only we wait, our wounds barely herald %for the counterattack before sunrise POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR First Line: The light foot hears you and the brightness begins Last Line: Clockwise and counter-clockwise turning POEM IN STRETCHING First Line: Prophesying. Reading water or words, signs are cards in their multiple Last Line: As flat as that POEM SLOW BEGINNING First Line: Remembering powers of love %and of poetry Last Line: Inadequate boundaries %of the heart you hold to POETRY DISARRANGED First Line: Not a derangement of the senses but yes there is an occult other Last Line: Poetry pictures his listening POETRY, A NATURAL THING Poem Text First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Last Line: His only beauty to be / all moose Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Last Line: His only beauty to be / all moose Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Last Line: His only beauty to be %all moose Subject(s): Poetry And Poets PREFACE TO THE SUITE First Line: Childhood, boyhood, young manhood RE- Poem Text First Line: = Last Line: The fresh shoots of war RE- First Line: #name? Last Line: The fresh shoots of war REAPER First Line: Created by the poets to sing my song Last Line: The source of the song will die away RETURNING TO ROOTS OF FIRST FEELING Poem Text First Line: Feld, groes or goers, hus, doeg, dung Last Line: And restore lasting melodies of his desire RISK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That there might, may, be Last Line: Throw their lives upon the numbers RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate Last Line: Either by the inner senses of the imaginative faculty or by the outer senses Subject(s): Reality; Imagination RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELS. First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate Last Line: The vagabond must return to be admitted in the creation of what we consider we are Subject(s): Reality RITES OF PASSAGE, SELS. First Line: Something is taking place RITES OF PASSAGE: II Poem Text First Line: Something is taking place. Last Line: Let my struggling spirit in itself be free ROOTS AND BRANCHES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ROOTS AND BRANCHES First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SALVAGES: AN EVENING PIECE First Line: A plate in light upon a table is not a plate of hunger. Coins on the table Last Line: And it is the beauty of where we have been living that is the poetry of the hour SEAMS Recitation by Author SENTINELS First Line: Earth owls in ancient burrows clumpt Last Line: I remember ever mute and alive, hidden in all things SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SUITE (4 AND 5) First Line: As I in hoarie winters night stoode shivering in the snow Last Line: Can compensate. I think I could bear it. %I cannot think I could bear it SHADOWS First Line: The grail broken SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES Poem Text First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD Poem Text First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SMALL POEM FOR JACK First Line: You showed me your ocean in a fish-bowl Last Line: If suspiciously warmer. %but cold of the real sea SONG FROM THE STRUCTURES OF RIME RINGING ... First Line: Something has wrecht the world I am in SONG OF THE BORDERGUARD First Line: The man with his lion under the shed of wars Last Line: The borderlines of sense in the morning light %are naked as a line of poetry in a war SONGS OF AN OTHER First Line: If there were another Last Line: In every room I come to SONNET: 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 1 First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Homosexuality SONNET: 2 Recitation by Author SONNET: 3 Recitation by Author SONNET: 4 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He's given me his thee to keep Last Line: The rose-hip persistence of the truth hid therein from me enduring SOURCE First Line: Or: I work at the language as a spring of water works at the rock, to Last Line: Pen a foreign element that I may crave -- as for kingdom or salvation or freedom -- but never know SPARK FROM THIS FLINT BY VON HEARTSTRUCK Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STAGE DIRECTIONS PASSAGES 30 First Line: Slowly the toiling images will rise Last Line: New springs are loosed on helicon STRAINS OF SIGHT First Line: He brought a light so she could see Last Line: What the question is, %where the heart reflects STRUCTURE OF RIME I First Line: I ask the unyielding sentence that shows itself forth in the language Last Line: Vomiting images into the place of the law! STRUCTURE OF RIME II First Line: What of the structure of rime? I said Last Line: The music of the spheres STRUCTURE OF RIME IV First Line: O outrider! %when you come to the threshold of the stars Last Line: All that simple elements were %guardians are STRUCTURE OF RIME VI First Line: The old women came from their caves to close the too many doors Last Line: Thus, the grass must give up new keys to rescue the living STRUCTURE OF RIME XI First Line: There are memories everywhere then. Remembered, we go out, as in Last Line: Sets out without boatmen into twenty years of snow returning STRUCTURE OF RIME XIII First Line: Best of ways. That there be a law the earth gives and the mountain Last Line: Defining the valley, the old sea, we say this %is the place STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI First Line: Back to the figure %of the man in the drill dancing Last Line: O my soul, %now man's desolation %into his beginnings return STRUCTURE OF RIME XVII First Line: This potion is love's portion. This herb Last Line: Wreathes her spell. Of thistles made. This herb %her bliss STRUCTURE OF RIME XVIII First Line: This potion is love's portion. This herb her bliss Last Line: Wreathes her spell. Of thistles made. This herb her bliss STRUCTURE OF RIME XX First Line: The master of rime told me, you must learn to lose heart. I have Last Line: He went. His head bowd, looking down, seeking his way away from me STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station Last Line: The domain of colouring invading %the responsible Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) STYX Poem Text First Line: And a tenth part of okeanos is given to dark night Last Line: We thirst for in dreams we dread Subject(s): Styx (mythological River) STYX First Line: And a tenth part of okeanos is given to dark night Last Line: We thirst for in dreams we dread SUCH IS THE SICKNESS OF MANY A GOOD THING Poem Text First Line: Was he then adam of the burning way? Last Line: From its lightness to what's / underground Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SUCH IS THE SICKNESS OF MANY A GOOD THING First Line: Was he then adam of the burning way? TEMPLE OF THE ANIMALS First Line: The temple of the animals has fallen into disrepair Last Line: Ah, bitterly I recall %the animals of last year THE ALBIGENSES Recitation by Author THE CONTINENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Under-/earth currents, gaia, hannahanna Last Line: Drifting feature from feature THE DREAMERS Recitation by Author THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Garcia lorca tasted Last Line: This is the drinking-fountain Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Dead, The THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: Fire stone hand leaf shadow sun Last Line: Now new old first day jump THE HELMET OF GOLIATH Recitation by Author Subject(s): Goliath THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jerusalem THE LOVER Poem Text First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Seeing his wrath in faces passing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE MIRROR Recitation by Author THE QUESTION Recitation by Author THE REAPER Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVIII Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Kundry was wagner's creation Last Line: Let this time have its canto THE STRUCTURE OF RIME I Poem Text First Line: I ask the unyielding sentence Last Line: Vomiting images into the plave of the law THE STRUCTURE OF RIME II Poem Text First Line: What of the structure of rime? I said Last Line: The meaning of the music of the spheres THE STRUCTURE OF RIME IX Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME V Poem Text First Line: Among the bleeding branches I hear sentences Last Line: Your aroused fire leaves shadows in my heart that whisper to the black into which I go THE STRUCTURE OF RIME VI Poem Text First Line: The old women came from their caves to close the too many Last Line: The grass must give up new keys to rescue the living THE STRUCTURE OF RIME VIII Poem Text First Line: From a nexus in the impossible, a tear flows Last Line: The eyes that are horns of the moon feast on leaves of trampled sentences THE STRUCTURE OF RIME X Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Thi* of tha first things.For tha sea is th* Last Line: Our dust comes to your knees THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XI Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI Poem Text First Line: Back to the figure Last Line: Into his beginnings return! THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Back to the figure Last Line: No man's desolation / into his beginnings return! THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVII Poem Text First Line: Helen among the wraiths Last Line: This herb her bliss Subject(s): Love THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XXII Poem Text First Line: Sounding the triangle he rings notes the eye signs Last Line: Poised where they cross, crossing and signing her thighs, her zone THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station Last Line: Who-he-is-in-reality, the domain of colouring invading the responsible. Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) THE TEMPLE OF THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: The temple of the animals has fallen into disrepair Last Line: The animals of last year THERE'S TOO MUCH SEA ON THE BIG SUR Poem Text First Line: The woman on the mountain kept her fictive ocean Last Line: The real sea keeps me in THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM Poem Text First Line: Might have been. / certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Last Line: In the lord's eyes Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM First Line: Might have been. %certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Last Line: In the lord's eyes Subject(s): Homosexuality TO VOW Poem Text First Line: It is in the fear of the lord Last Line: It is because I know we may never be together again that I praise love's power TRUE TO LIFE First Line: 6/20 went %up to the denials of poetry: those dames Last Line: Revealing inconsequent things, %the immediate empire TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE First Line: The authors are in eternity TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE: VARIATIONS Poem Text First Line: The authors are in eternity Last Line: The lovers' kiss Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) TWO PRESENTATIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We send youj word of the mother Subject(s): Mothers UNDER GROUND Poem Text First Line: First/mor-than-fire, then liquid stone, then stone Last Line: Cast in the pool to the eye that has not demanded it UNKINGD BY AFFECTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: One exchanges the empire of one's desire for the anarchy of pleasures Last Line: Shelterd by our humble imaginary lives from the eternal storm of our rage Subject(s): Pleasure UPON TAKING HOLD First Line: The world as we reach stretches Last Line: The joys of the household are fates that command us WHAT DO I KNOW OF THE OLD LAW? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What do I know of the left and the right Last Line: In ther name of that garden! Subject(s): Kaballah WHAT DO I KNOW OF THE OLD LORE? First Line: A young editor wants me to write ... WHAT I SAW Poem Text First Line: The white peacock roosting Last Line: Vertical to the horizon Subject(s): Transience; Birds; Impermanence WHAT TIME OF DAY IS IT? Recitation by Author WITCH'S SONG Recitation by Author WORDS OPEN OUT UPON GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Like windows in that house high Last Line: Not of our knowledge, right by unreason Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WRITING AS WRITING First Line: The word in the hand is the sound in the eye is the sight in the Last Line: A literal transcription of letters is a conceit that pleases YEARS AS CATCHES First Line: This century, an iron bell of joy, has scarcely rung Last Line: Break open and set free %his world, my ecstasy Robertson, Duncan J. 3 poems available by this author RETURN First Line: All day the land in golden sunshine lay SUMMER NIGHT First Line: The crescent moon sinks slowly down TRAVELLERS First Line: A strange procession passes still |
|